That actor embodied 95% of signallers perfectly 😂

2:50 MOM “because I hadn’t taken the block myself you are always a bit wary because we were trapped where we were”. WTF?? Why didn’t he call back the signaller and say “ please confirm the block is on the up fast? ‘

That got me more than 90% of horror movie jumpscares, I'm still shaking!

That's right. It's easy to assume and get into bad habits. i worked on the railway for twenty years, and each day was different.

OMG! These two men were really lucky - I'm glad for them they're still alive!

3:45 that horn tho

Both the Driver and the Mom got extremely lucky, I am extremely happy that they were able to survive the incident. The driver of the Pendolino easily had no idea they were there and acted accordingly with the horn, then most definitely reacted to the worst case scenario, its not every day you have 2 guys in the 6 and 4 foot working on a voyager

I was a senior picop I always double checked , and went of my way to keep everyone informed about issues .Having had to deal with many failed trains in my possessions over many years. With the stress of the job I have now left the industry for good. No support from the company I worked for network rail .I just decided to leave , the best decision in my live .

William Stevenson was the London Euston-based Virgin Trains driver (now retired).

1:55 Doesn't matter. The driver agreed to contact the signaller FIRST, therefore he should have contacted the signaller FIRST. When Gemmell was asked to go onto the tracks without the driver contacting the signaller, he should've said NO and insisted on the signaller being contacted FIRST. Nuff said!

3:49 holy crap

4:06... "Excuse me, but do you happen to have any spare trousers?"

The signaller be like: "alright, i don't give a shlt".

As a train driver its easy to point out what has happened here, trains behind the voyager that have stopped will be re directed, but there was no redirection from trains coming the other way so if they didn't take the action that they did they would have been the filling in a very nasty sandwich.

I know you posted this remark a while ago but with respect, safety critical comms were ALOT worse under BR than what they were when this happened, ie, TOTALY non exsistent! Im ex BR, now NR by the way. On track staff deaths are at their lowest ever. Cheers.

OMG UNBELIEVABLE AND UNREAL.THEY ARE BOTH VERY LUCKY TO BE ALIVE.BOTH MOM AND THE TRAIN 🚆 DRVER

@PhillyProbe It's "5" for ECS. "4" is freights that can travel at up to 75mph.

This seems to be mostly the signalman's fault for not ensuring that the Up Main was safe.

The way the title is writ
It looks like an American skit
'Mommy'

Driver to passengers
'We will be waiting here till my Mom arrives'😂

formidable38 i think you may have to check your statistics i think you will find that since 2000 there have been 53 trackworker fatalities only 15 in the 90's 86 fatalities in the 80's all before privitisation

SHOULD CONFIRM AND DOUBLE CHECK WITH THE SIGNAL MAN. TO SAY THAT THE UP FAST LINE IS BLOCKED AND ITS SAFE TO GO ON THE UP FAST LINE